Objective To describe the redactions in contemporary protocols for industry-sponsored randomised drug trials with patient relevant outcomes and to evaluate whether there was a legitimate rationale for the redactions. Design Cohort study. Under the Freedom of Information Act, we requested access to trial protocols approved by a research ethics committee in Denmark from October 2012 to March 2013. We received 17 consecutive protocols, which had been redacted before we got them, and nine protocols without redactions...

Political pressure to increase access to primary care is growing. In the face of ever increasing demand for healthcare, this increase in primary care aims to reduce the burden on urgent and secondary care services. Also part of a broader driver towards establishing a seven-day NHS service, this would require general practice surgeries to extend their opening hours beyond their current obligatory 52.5 h per week. However, benchmarking with other European systems demonstrates that normal in-hours general practice provision in England already exceeds that of most other European countries...

While staying in the White House over Christmas 1941, Churchill developed chest pain on trying to open a window in his bedroom. Sir Charles Wilson, his personal physician, diagnosed a 'heart attack' (myocardial infarction). Wilson, for political and personal reasons, decided not to inform his patient of the diagnosis or obtain assistance from US medical colleagues. On Churchill's return to London, Wilson sought a second opinion from Dr John Parkinson who did not support the diagnosis of coronary thrombosis (myocardial infarction) and reassured Churchill accordingly...